Re: Visual Studio Orcas C++ Link Failure (Not Link Error)

From:

"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <rbv@nospam.nospam>

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microsoft.public.vc.language,microsoft.public.vc.utilities,microsoft.public.vstudio.general

Date:

Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:57:28 -0500

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"David Wright" <David@DavidGrayWright.com> wrote in message
news:13b4v2te7bhl3a3@corp.supernews.com...

I changed the settings and did a clean build and the compiler chose to turn
it back on again ???? Look below !

dllmain.obj : MSIL .netmodule or module compiled with /GL found;
restarting link with /LTCG; add /LTCG to the link command line to improve
linker performance

You have to turn them both off. If the compiler used LTCG, then there is no
machine code in the .obj, just information for LTCG, so the linker has to
run the compile phase.

David

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"Nathan Mates" <nathan@visi.com> wrote in message
news:13b43q3hhqrs8c7@corp.supernews.com...

In article <13b2tee88jb7v3c@corp.supernews.com>,
David Wright <David@DavidGrayWright.com> wrote:

It actually took 21 minutes to link the project I put another 512 meg of
ram
into the computer and cut it down to 19 minutes.

Anyone have any ideas - in debug it links within one minute?

Turn off 'whole program optimization' or 'link time code
generation.' That makes your binaries small & fast at the expense of
making your link times suffer. If you find the benefits from LTCG to
be worth it, make another project configuration that turns that on,
and don't use it as much.

Nathan Mates

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